April 11, 2024 News by Andrea Lobo, PhD Enrollment full in trial of Scone device for overactive bladder A clinical trial testing SpineX‘sĀ Scone neuromodulation device for treating a neurogenic, or overactive, bladder, a common symptom of multiple sclerosis (MS), has finished enrolling patients. Called CONTINENCE (NCT05301335), the study enrolled adults with overactive bladder due to MS, stroke, or spinal cord injury at…
February 15, 2024 News by Steve Bryson, PhD MS trial to test magnetic brain stimulation for overactive bladder A small clinical trial in Texas is testing whether a noninvasive magnetic brain stimulation procedure can ease the symptoms of overactive bladder in adults with multiple sclerosis (MS). The randomized Phase 2 study (NCT06072703) is ongoing at Houston Methodist Hospital, and is recruiting about 29 women with stable…
December 13, 2023 News by Andrea Lobo, PhD Clinical trial of Scone device for overactive bladder still enrolling Enrollment is nearly complete in a clinical trial of the SconeĀ neuromodulation device in treating neurogenic, or overactive, bladder due to multiple sclerosis (MS), stroke, or spinal cord injury, SpineX, its developer, announced. Currently, 95 adult patients (more than 80% of planned total), ages 18 to…
August 10, 2022 News by Marisa Wexler, MS Leg Nerve Stimulation Feasible, May Help With Overactive Bladder in MS Transcutaneous tibial nerve stimulation (TTNS), a procedure sending an electric current through the skin to nerves in the legs, is generally safe and feasible in people with overactive bladder due to multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a proof-of-concept study. Though the study was not designed to test the efficacy…
August 27, 2021 Columns by Ed Tobias I’m Trying a Different Medication, Myrbetriq, for My Urinary Issues I’ve had pee problems for as long as I’ve had multiple sclerosis. Many folks with MS have issues, including urinary urgency, frequency, or both, bladders that don’t empty completely, or streams that don’t start when you need to go. There are medications to treat these problems. The best known…
June 8, 2021 News by Steve Bryson, PhD Over 50% of MS Patients Report Urinary Problems in Italian Study Urinary problems, such as an urgency to urinate or a feeling of incomplete urination, are common among people with multiple sclerosis (MS), impacting more than half of patients, according to a large study in Italy. The researchers noted that urinary disorders…
August 14, 2018 News by Joana Carvalho, PhD Botox Increases Activity of Brain Regions Involved in Urinary Sensation, New Study Shows BotoxĀ injections in the bladder muscle increase the activity of brain regions involved in the sensation of urinary urgency in female multiple sclerosis (MS) patients who have neurogenic overactive bladder (NOAB), a new study shows. The study, “Higher Neural Correlates in Multiple Sclerosis Patients with Neurogenic Overactive…
May 4, 2018 Columns by John Connor Knowing Me, Knowing MS The problem with writing a weekly column is I always need to come up with new ideas. Luckily, or rather, unluckily, MS always throws me a U.S. sports-shaped analogy ā one of those trickily disguised curveballs. I wasn’t even going to attempt to write this week. Not because of…
April 13, 2016 News by Patricia Silva, PhD Urinary Tract Symptoms Found to Affect 70% of MS Patients in Study and Contribute to Disability Urinary tract symptoms affect a large proportion of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), yet their extent and type is not well-known. A study reported that among a cohort of people with the disease, almost 70 percent had urinary tract problems, adding to the extent of their disability. The study,…